Darren Harriott (born 1 September 1988) is a British stand-up comedian.
In his shows Harriott is known to use comedy to address social issues he has experienced growing up, such as knife crime and gang culture.He was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017.
Harriott is now a regular at London comedy clubs such as 99 Club, Top Secret, Backyard Comedy Club, The Boat Show, Up the Creek and The Glee.
His 2019 stand-up show (recorded for Radio 4) is titled Black Label.Harriott has performed stand-up comedy on television shows Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central, as well as appearing on television comedy panel shows such as Mock The Week, and Hypothetical, Radio appearances include BBC Radio 4 shows Best of the Fest and The Now Show, and BBC Radio 5 Live comedy sports panel show Fighting Talk.
He is the host of Newsjack - Unplugged and Comedy of the Week on BBC Radio 4 .